painters {MASS} | R Documentation

## The Painter's Data of de Piles

### Description

The subjective assessment, on a 0 to 20 integer scale, of 54 classical painters. The painters were assessed on four characteristics: composition, drawing, colour and expression. The data is due to the Eighteenth century art critic, de Piles.

### Usage

    data(painters)

### Format

The row names of the data frame are the painters. The components are:

`Composition`
  Composition score
`Drawing`
  Drawing score
`Colour`
  Colour score
`Expression`
  Expression score
`School`
  The school to which a painter belongs, as indicated by a factor level code as follows: `"A"`: Renaissance; `"B"`: Mannerist; `"C"`: Seicento; `"D"`: Venetian; `"E"`: Lombard; `"F"`: Sixteenth Century; `"G"`: Seventeenth Century; `"H"`: French.

### Source

A. J. Weekes (1986) A Genstat Primer. Edward Arnold.

M. Davenport and G. Studdert-Kennedy (1972) The statistical analysis of aesthetic judgement: an exploration. Applied Statistics 21, 324–333.

I. T. Jolliffe (1986) Principal Component Analysis. Springer.

### References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

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